Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents

We are doing this with 4 reports. We have a custom packslip, open invoice, open order, and material ready to ship. Basically it is just crystal report viewer built into a web app. They login using credentials stored in the custcnt and then the custnum is passed automatically as a parameter to the report.
We had an outside developer do the programming work. Contact me offline and I can give you more details. I might be able to set you up a sample login. It is not fancy just a few links that run the ODBC reports.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Tom J. Christie" <tchristie@...> wrote:
>
> Creating on the fly is actually something I didn't want, in that I want to see what was actually sent out.
>
> We actually have written procedures to automagically index files for us in doclink, so the users generally do not have to do it manually. There are a few documents that have hand-written notes and those are manually scanned.
>
> If you wanted on the fly, could you expose a variation of SSRS reports? I don't have any experience with doing much with the SSRS reports in Epicor (though I have made a bunch of nifty custom ones).
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:29 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents
>
>
>
> Tom, OK.. good, so you're Vantage/Epicor users are manually printing to PDF
> and storing in DocLink which then could be potentially accessed by your
> customers?
>
> I was somewhat trying to avoid the step of having the users manually print
> and vault. My utopian vision would be for these docs to be created
> on-the-fly when requested by the customer. But, I do like your idea and
> that spawns other thoughts/options for now.
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> Tom J. Christie
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:37 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents
>
> We haven't implemented it to external customers but using Doc-Link to store
> everything we use custom .net code to pull the pdf files as needed. We have
> a few fancy ones that pull all the different types of data associated with
> whatever task we are running. To put a web-interface on this would be cake.
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:23 AM
> To: Vantage Yahoo
> Subject: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents
>
> I hope everyone is having a good week. While we all patiently wait for Rob
> Bucek to put up his "Input-Value BPM" code this week, :-) I wanted to ping
> everyone and see what you may have implemented in your office.
>
> Do you allow your Customers to retrieve their docs from your website
> somehow? I'm tossing around the idea of implementing something so our
> Customers can download their Pack Slips, Invoices and another custom "Test
> Report" we attach to every shipment. I don't believe I would need security,
> just a means for them to input their CustID, perhaps, and see a list of all
> Invoices, Packs and Test Reports available for them to download in PDF
> format.
>
> I'm on Vantage 8.03.409C/Progress.
>
> Have any of you implemented such a feature and if so, what have you used and
> can you share any wisdom?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Vic
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
> Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
> Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
> Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
I hope everyone is having a good week. While we all patiently wait for Rob
Bucek to put up his "Input-Value BPM" code this week, :-) I wanted to ping
everyone and see what you may have implemented in your office.



Do you allow your Customers to retrieve their docs from your website
somehow? I'm tossing around the idea of implementing something so our
Customers can download their Pack Slips, Invoices and another custom "Test
Report" we attach to every shipment. I don't believe I would need security,
just a means for them to input their CustID, perhaps, and see a list of all
Invoices, Packs and Test Reports available for them to download in PDF
format.



I'm on Vantage 8.03.409C/Progress.



Have any of you implemented such a feature and if so, what have you used and
can you share any wisdom?





Thanks.





Vic






-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
We haven't implemented it to external customers but using Doc-Link to store everything we use custom .net code to pull the pdf files as needed. We have a few fancy ones that pull all the different types of data associated with whatever task we are running. To put a web-interface on this would be cake.


From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Vantage Yahoo
Subject: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents



I hope everyone is having a good week. While we all patiently wait for Rob
Bucek to put up his "Input-Value BPM" code this week, :-) I wanted to ping
everyone and see what you may have implemented in your office.

Do you allow your Customers to retrieve their docs from your website
somehow? I'm tossing around the idea of implementing something so our
Customers can download their Pack Slips, Invoices and another custom "Test
Report" we attach to every shipment. I don't believe I would need security,
just a means for them to input their CustID, perhaps, and see a list of all
Invoices, Packs and Test Reports available for them to download in PDF
format.

I'm on Vantage 8.03.409C/Progress.

Have any of you implemented such a feature and if so, what have you used and
can you share any wisdom?

Thanks.

Vic

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Tom, OK.. good, so you're Vantage/Epicor users are manually printing to PDF
and storing in DocLink which then could be potentially accessed by your
customers?



I was somewhat trying to avoid the step of having the users manually print
and vault. My utopian vision would be for these docs to be created
on-the-fly when requested by the customer. But, I do like your idea and
that spawns other thoughts/options for now.



Thanks for your input!



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Tom J. Christie
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents





We haven't implemented it to external customers but using Doc-Link to store
everything we use custom .net code to pull the pdf files as needed. We have
a few fancy ones that pull all the different types of data associated with
whatever task we are running. To put a web-interface on this would be cake.

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Vantage Yahoo
Subject: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents

I hope everyone is having a good week. While we all patiently wait for Rob
Bucek to put up his "Input-Value BPM" code this week, :-) I wanted to ping
everyone and see what you may have implemented in your office.

Do you allow your Customers to retrieve their docs from your website
somehow? I'm tossing around the idea of implementing something so our
Customers can download their Pack Slips, Invoices and another custom "Test
Report" we attach to every shipment. I don't believe I would need security,
just a means for them to input their CustID, perhaps, and see a list of all
Invoices, Packs and Test Reports available for them to download in PDF
format.

I'm on Vantage 8.03.409C/Progress.

Have any of you implemented such a feature and if so, what have you used and
can you share any wisdom?

Thanks.

Vic

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12




-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Creating on the fly is actually something I didn't want, in that I want to see what was actually sent out.

We actually have written procedures to automagically index files for us in doclink, so the users generally do not have to do it manually. There are a few documents that have hand-written notes and those are manually scanned.

If you wanted on the fly, could you expose a variation of SSRS reports? I don't have any experience with doing much with the SSRS reports in Epicor (though I have made a bunch of nifty custom ones).

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:29 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents



Tom, OK.. good, so you're Vantage/Epicor users are manually printing to PDF
and storing in DocLink which then could be potentially accessed by your
customers?

I was somewhat trying to avoid the step of having the users manually print
and vault. My utopian vision would be for these docs to be created
on-the-fly when requested by the customer. But, I do like your idea and
that spawns other thoughts/options for now.

Thanks for your input!

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
Tom J. Christie
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents

We haven't implemented it to external customers but using Doc-Link to store
everything we use custom .net code to pull the pdf files as needed. We have
a few fancy ones that pull all the different types of data associated with
whatever task we are running. To put a web-interface on this would be cake.

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Vic Drecchio
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Vantage Yahoo
Subject: [Vantage] Your Customers Retrieving Their Documents

I hope everyone is having a good week. While we all patiently wait for Rob
Bucek to put up his "Input-Value BPM" code this week, :-) I wanted to ping
everyone and see what you may have implemented in your office.

Do you allow your Customers to retrieve their docs from your website
somehow? I'm tossing around the idea of implementing something so our
Customers can download their Pack Slips, Invoices and another custom "Test
Report" we attach to every shipment. I don't believe I would need security,
just a means for them to input their CustID, perhaps, and see a list of all
Invoices, Packs and Test Reports available for them to download in PDF
format.

I'm on Vantage 8.03.409C/Progress.

Have any of you implemented such a feature and if so, what have you used and
can you share any wisdom?

Thanks.

Vic

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com>
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5322 - Release Date: 10/10/12

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]